{"id":57886,"date":"2022-04-14T10:20:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T09:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=57886"},"modified":"2022-04-14T10:20:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T09:20:37","slug":"power-outage-phed-blames-vandals-on-transmission-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/power-outage-phed-blames-vandals-on-transmission-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Outage: PHED Blames Vandals On Transmission Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution (PHED) Plc has attributed recent power outage in Cross Rivers State to the activities of Vandals of it’s facilities.<\/p>\n

According to s terse statement from the Disco, Vandals attack on its TCN 330KV transmission line Odukpani\/Ikot Ekpene, Tower, T104 at Oki Iboku in Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State has collapsed and resulted to total blackout.<\/p>\n

The statement read this: “The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution (PHED) Plc wishes to inform our esteemed customers in Cross Rivers State that due to the attack by vandals on a TCN 330KV transmission line at Odukpani\/Ikot Ekpene, the Tower, T104 at Oku Iboku in Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State has collapsed.<\/p>

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The action of the vandals has affected the flow of power from the national grid to the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Plc network thereby disrupting power supply to our customers in Cross Rivers State. We hereby apologise to our customers who are cut off from power supply for the inconveniences.<\/p>\n

We are monitoring developments with the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and we hope that power supply will be restored to the affected areas soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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